Environment

A Boulder activist was among protesters who stopped a Trump administration climate panel talk in Poland with laughter.

Two Arvada grandmothers started the organization two years ago, to help educate the public.

Do your homework: Would you live in a house with an 80007 zip code?

Brownstein has served as fiduciary counsel to PERA’s board of trustees since 2011.

Residents of the 80007 zip code may not know they’re living near a former nuclear weapons plant.

The former nuclear weapons plant opened to the public in September as a wildlife refuge.

Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald offers tips to living with urban wildlife in cities like Denver and beyond.

The addition will be part of the course’s stormwater diversion project.

It’s mostly oil and gas companies, not individual Coloradans.

Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald reveals the kinds of diseases carried by urban wildlife in Denver.

Plutonium is forever, and so is the never-ending saga of the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant.

Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald talks about the most common urban wildlife seen in Denver and why sightings have been increasing of late. And while he brings plenty of data to the table, his most important sources tend to be found at ground level.

If you’re into seeing Colorado’s aspens turn their golden color each fall, you better go soon because it’s already happening.

House Democrats are pressuring the EPA to establish a maximum contaminant level for PFAS chemicals.

The third annual 14ers.com analysis of the most popular Colorado fourteeners shows that their use by hikers continues to go up in most major ranges in the state and particularly along the Front Range, where the numbers are nearly as elevated as the peaks themselves.

We asked Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald, a veterinarian at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital as well as a star of two past Animal Planet programs, Emergency Vets and E-Vet Interns, and a regular on the Denver stand-up comedy scene, to share some of his rattlesnake knowledge, and the information he provides here is filled with fascinating factoids.

A Northeastern University study from 2013 showed that PFAS exposure was linked to six diseases: ulcerative colitis, pregnancy-induced hypertension, thyroid disease, testicular cancer and kidney cancer.

When Jolon Clark proposed a new sales tax to improve and expand parks in the Mile High City, he was a Denver City Council member. Now, he’s the council’s president, and he’s thrilled that his colleagues have voted to place the measure on the November ballot.

Governor John Hickenlooper calls on the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission to eliminate its backlog of orphaned wells, which pose an environmental risk of soil and groundwater contamination to the state.

The work of a small group could lead to big changes for recycling collection.

The Spring Creek Fire in Costilla County, allegedly started on June 27 five miles east of Fort Garland by 52-year-old Danish immigrant Jesper Joergensen, surpassed the 100,000 acre mark, growing by nearly 8,000 acres over a 24 hour period. Moreover, the number of structures destroyed by the blaze now stands at 132. But the news as of early July 6 isn’t entirely bad. The fire has gone from 5 percent to 35 percent contained, increasing hope that the estimate of total containment by month’s end isn’t a pipe dream.

An expert on water throughout Colorado feels the conditions that have helped fuel the 416 Fire near Durango and other blazes in the state at present could be with us for the foreseeable future.